Cockpit vs. Canopy

Cockpitnoun

The driver's compartment in a racing car (or, by extension, in a sports car or other automobile).

Cockpitnoun

The compartment in an aircraft in which the pilot sits and from where the craft is controlled; an analogous area in a spacecraft.

Cockpitnoun

A pit or other enclosure for cockfighting.

Cockpitnoun

(figurative) A site of conflict; a battlefield.

Cockpitnoun

The vagina.

Cockpitnoun

(Jamaica) A valley surrounded by steep forested slopes.

Cockpitnoun

The area set aside for junior officers including the ship's surgeon on a man-of-war, where the wounded were treated; the sickbay.

Cockpitnoun

(nautical) A well, usually near the stern, where the helm is located.

Cockpitnoun

(figurative) An area from where something is controlled or managed; a centre of control.

Cockpitnoun

A pit, or inclosed area, for cockfights.

Cockpitnoun

The Privy Council room at Westminster; - so called because built on the site of the cockpit of Whitehall palace.

Cockpitnoun

That part of a war vessel appropriated to the wounded during an engagement.

Cockpitnoun

In airplanes or boats, the space where the pilot or operator sits to control the vehicle. In airplanes it is usually in the front of the fuselage. In larger airplanes it may be closed off from the cabin, where the passengers travel.

Cockpitnoun

compartment where the pilot sits while flying the aircraft

Cockpitnoun

an enclosure for cockfights

Cockpitnoun

seat where the driver sits while driving a racing car

Cockpit

A cockpit or flight deck is the area, usually near the front of an aircraft or spacecraft, from which a pilot controls the aircraft. The cockpit of an aircraft contains flight instruments on an instrument panel, and the controls that enable the pilot to fly the aircraft.

Canopynoun

A high cover providing shelter, such as a cloth supported above an object, particularly over a bed.

Canopynoun

Any overhanging or projecting roof structure, typically over entrances or doors.

Canopynoun

The zone of the highest foliage and branches of a forest.

Canopynoun

In an airplane, the transparent cockpit cover.

Canopynoun

In a parachute, the cloth that fills with air and thus limits the falling speed.

Canopyverb

(transitive) To cover with or as if with a canopy.

Canopyverb

(intransitive) To go through the canopy of a forest on a zipline.

Canopynoun

A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.

Canopynoun

An ornamental projection, over a door, window, niche, etc.

Canopyverb

To cover with, or as with, a canopy.

Canopynoun

the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit

Canopynoun

the umbrella-like part of a parachute that fills with air

Canopynoun

a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather

Canopyverb

cover with a canopy